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The grid is live.
Tickets for BSides Canberra IX are now on sale.
We’re back 24–26 September 2026 with three days of community-driven security talks, research, and conversation.
Tickets: events.humanitix.com/bsides-…
bsidescbr.com.au/
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Day 3. Let’s go.
An absolutely stacked speaker lineup today, plus the final push for both the CTF and Black Bag challenges.
Three days in and we’re not slowing down yet.
See you inside.
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Talk yesterday, tooling already released.
Justin’s presenting his timing attacks research at BSides Canberra yesterday, and tturl is now open source. Very cool work from @justinsteven and @TantoSecurity
There's still some novel attack vectors that are only being operationalised now. @justinsteven is presenting on his research on timing attacks at @BSidesCbr today, and has released tturl as open source! github.com/tantosec/tturl - Justin/Tanto have put a lot of work into this.
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Day 2 done.
Killer keynote and talks. CTF underway. Black Box made its debut. Locksport packed.
Then we finished with a few thousand hackers + nerdcore rappers int80, YTCracker & DNZ.
Huge thanks to the volunteers and crew making it all happen.
One more day.
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BSides Canberra Day 2.
Renaud Feil of Synacktiv kicks us off with our keynote.
Main CTF starts 10am. New Black Box competition in Locksport. Free coffee upstairs + downstairs.
Then int80, YTCracker & DNZ tonight from 6pm. Bring your badge + lanyard for party entry.
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Fresh out of a BSides Canberra talk and straight onto GitHub.
Ares is now public. Go check out the work behind the talk.
Ares is now released after my talk at @BSidesCBR - check it out github.com/nullableVoidPtr/a…
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That’s a wrap on Day 1 of BSides Canberra 2026.
Packed talks, competitions, hardware hacking, Careers Village, training, locksport, BlackBag, HackerChix and more.
Unofficial events are buzzing around Canberra tonight and tomorrow, the CTF begins.
See you for Day 2.
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Day 1 of BSides Canberra and a fantastic turnout for our annual HackerChix women’s networking event.
Great to see so many women from across the community connecting, catching up and meeting new people. Thanks to everyone who came along!
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Thanks @TantoSecurity for sponsoring another year of BSides and bringing great swag 🙌
The entire Tanto Security team will be at @BSidesCbr this wk. We look forward to catching up with friends and supporting our colleagues who are getting up on stage... and we'll have lots of them! With SEVEN talks. Plus we got swaggggg to give away.
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9 conferences. 11 years of support.
@ASDGovAu has sponsored @BSidesCbr every year we’ve run since 2016, and supported our CTF for around 6 years.
As fellow Canberrans, they’ve been part of our story from the start.
Thanks for backing our community ❤️
asd.gov.au
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Early rego is TODAY, 2–5pm at the NCCC.
Otherwise, doors open tomorrow at 7:30am, with the first talk at 9am.
We’ve got 3,000+ people to check in. Please don’t all arrive at 8:50am and test whether we can do it in 10 minutes.
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The BSidesCbr @sk8boardingdog CTF is LIVE and registrations are open!
1st: $2,500 + limited edition trophy + LEGO Donkey Kong Arcade
2nd: $1,250 + medal + LEGO Arcade Pinball
3rd: $750 + medal
Plus challenge prizes.
Register, rules & prizes:
2026.sk8.dog/
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Special themed merch has landed.
BSides Canberra hats will be available at the merch desk for $20.
Limited stock, so if you want one, don’t leave it too late.
See you on The Grid.
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A huge thank you to @threat_defence for supporting BSides Canberra 2026!
Our sponsors help us keep BSides affordable, community-focused and just a little bit weird.
Thanks for getting behind us and the community. ❤️
threatdefence.com
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Angus has restocked the Locksport Village.
Apparently “enough locks” is not a concept he believes in. 😂
Come learn to pick locks at BSides Canberra this week, beginners absolutely welcome
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One BSides organiser visiting another!
@BSidesGC’s Paul McCarty is running a full-day hands-on Software Supply Chain Threat Intelligence workshop with us this Saturday.
Great to have you in Canberra, Paul! 💙
Join me at @BSidesCbr for an all-day workshop this Saturday, September 26th: "Software Supply Chain Threat Intelligence: Hands-On Training for SecOps and Threat Hunting Teams"
cfp.bsidescbr.com.au/bsides-…
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The pallets are almost ready for bump-in on Wednesday!
Just the finishing touches to go over the next day, then it’s time to get this show on the road.
Months of work are about to come together. We’re going to make BSides CBR 2026 the best one yet. 💙
See you all very soon!
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It's BSides Canberra week!
If you've spent the last few months watching us announce talks, training, CTFs, villages and challenges while thinking "I really should get a ticket"...
This would be an excellent time to do that.
See you Thursday.
events.humanitix.com/bsides-…
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